Motif
Forging a wondrous object from small or unlikely materials
forging_a_wondrous_object_from_small_or_unlikely_materials
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family, within the sub-family Unusual Materials for Magic Objects. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 1056-1128 confidence: medium
In the Finnish excerpt, Louhi of Pohjola asks Wainamoinen what he will give if she brings him to his own lands and home precinct. Wainamoinen asks what she wants. Louhi calls him wise and asks whether he can forge the Sampo with a decorated lid from a swan feather, wool, a barley grain, and a spindle fragment.
Louhi asks whether Wainamoinen can forge the Sampo with a decorated lid from a swan feather, wool, a barley grain, and a spindle fragment.
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